Anyone remember RIDE?

[Garlick]

Just listening to some old stuff like 'Chelsea Girl' and 'Drive Blind' proper fast, feedback indie from the shoegazing era.

Still a good listen actually.

[itsnotarace]

Going Blank Again was a great album, not heard it for donkeys - you have prompted a re-listen

[Garlick]

Go back through their very first EPs too, it's good stuff.

I remember seeing Drive Blind on a TV show called Transmission, and getting the bus into town to visit Our Price the very next day. Those were the days.

[Drive Blind]

I'm a huge fan.

Regularly listen to all their stuff. Nowhere is a classic album - was listening to it just last night actually. Always takes me back to being 16 again.

Saw them live 4 times - the 'daytripper' gig with The Charlatans in Blackpool in march '93 being the highlight.

If Mark and Andy had been stronger vocally and lyrically they would have been massive. IMO

[useyourdellusion]

itsnotarace said:

Going Blank Again was a great album, not heard it for donkeys - you have prompted a re-listen

*Goes to dig it out*

It is a good album. I haven't heard it for years either. Was quite partial to 'Twisterella' I think the track was called...

[Bomber Denton]

'Vapour Trail'

One of my all time favourite tracks.

[neilr]

Great band. Andy Bell produced the first single for some friends of mine just as Ride split, he's a very nice bloke. We bumped into him a couple of years ago at a Mark Gardner gig in London and he was still a nice bloke. Drive blind and Leave them all behind were my personal favs mostly.

[Ultuous]

No matter how many times I hear it, this never fails to captivate me...

[Asterix]

Good band - Moonlight Medicine was a top track.

Oxford had some great bands coming oiut around that time.

[gmk666]

Was listening to Nowhere just the other day.
Back in my student days (92?) I saw them at The Broken Doll, a very tiny, and very dingy pub in Newcastle.
Only went because John Peel had played Chelsea Girl.
Where are they now? (Ride, not Peely.)

Edited because I just checked. It was 1990. 20 years ago? Bloody hell!

Edited by gmk666 on Tuesday 10th August 16:33

[robsco]

Nowhere is a cracking album, the opening track "Seagull" is just fantastic. In fact, I'm going to play it now!

[Oddboy86]

Haven't heard of them before, but listened to a few of the links. Excellent stuff.

[Libertine]

I bought "Nowhere" when it came out, first on vinyl, and then on CD. One of my all time favourite albums, and must agree with above comment, "Vapour Trail" is one of my favourite songs, ever. It was "Taste" that I heard first and made me buy the album.

I think I eventually bought all the early EPs, not a bad song on any of them!

When Oasis split, I secretly hoped that there may be some sort of reunion, but I know that wont happen. Being a msssive fan and never having seen them live, I live in hope of a miracle!

What a cover!

[Mr. Potato Head]

Drive Blind said:

the 'daytripper' gig with The Charlatans in Blackpool in march '93

Brilliant, erm, daytrip

[Marvindodgers]

Ride were a splendid band and Polar Bear and Leave Them All Behind are truly epic! Still two of my favourite songs of all time. Saw them live at Hanley Victoria Halls in 1992(?) on the Going Blank Again tour and they were magnificent! I'm having total student flashbacks thinking about that show!!
Anyone remember the Rob Newman sketch on The Mary Whitehouse Experience where he tried to play football with Mark?
Mark also used to sport a pair of black patent leather DM's. I always wanted a pair, but the reality of student life in Stoke may well have provoked a kicking from the locals!!

[Dracoro]

Great band.

Nowhere one of the all time great albums.

Ride part of the soundtrack of my uni life.

I was into (still am) many shoegazing bands. MBV, JAMC, the excellent Slowdive (now Mojave 3 - seen many times), Blind Mr.Jones and so on.

Mark Gardener did a solo album (nothing great) - Animal House as I remember. Andy Bell now bassist in Oasis.

[Ultuous]

I'm never sure what to think of Shoegazing - on the one hand I find a lot of it an utterly uninspired excuse for bad guitar playing and poor vocals, drowned in effects pedal overkill, and on the other, it's possibly the last time guitar-based bands managed to do something beyond the standard pop song on a massive scale...

Slowdive were indeed ace, and I drifted off blissfully to Lush's 'Spooky' just last week - they were great live too on the one occasion I managed to see them.... one of the first gigs I ever went to!

[Asterix]

My old band's Wikipedia page has us noted as a shoegazing band - don't know who did it and I can't edit it from the Middle East. No one else ever called us that but I gues it was becuase we dared to step outside of the norm and do 12 minute songs etc...

[Marvindodgers]

Deluxe by Lush was a great track and I seem to remember the girls being rather "lush" as well!
This thread is definitely making me feel like an 18 year old student again!